Steve Whitesides and his wife, Abby, started their dairy farm, Whitesides Dairy, when they were right out of high school in 1978 , with just 10 cows. Today, they run the farm in partnership with their son and son-in-law, milking 7,000 cows and employing 110 people. They farm alfalfa, corn and barley  and lease land to other farmers for growing feed crops . In 2010, the Whitesides built a second dairy farm and a bottling plant in Hawaii, which they sold in 2020. The Whitesides have received numerous awards including the 2019 Dairy West Milk Quality Award, DFA’s Mountain Area dairy quality award every year since 2008 and were inducted into the Southern Idaho Livestock Hall of Fame in 2023.